Has the war against Police begun? UPDATE!

via ABC News.

A late-night ambush outside a state police barracks in Pennsylvania's rural northeastern corner left one trooper dead and another critically wounded, and authorities scoured the densely wooded countryside and beyond on Saturday looking for the shooter or shooters.
State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan said a "very dangerous, armed criminal" eluded quick capture.
"This attack was an ambush. Our troopers were ... shot without warning and really had no chance to defend themselves," Noonan told reporters Saturday afternoon. "It's a cowardly attack. It's an attack upon all of us in society."

NOTE:  Read the comments over at The BLAZE!...this is a right wing news site and the comments are all negative towards police.  Something has happened and the public no longer supports them.  One bad move and Sovereign Citizens and other anti-police groups will be cheered in their attacks.

Interesting.  An ambush by definition, if conducted properly, doesn't give the target a chance to defend themselves.

I also find it interesting that the Commissioner says that this is an attack against all of society.  How?  Unfortunately for police, those that target them hardly ever go after the rest of society.  Even the most rabid of them...the Sovereign Citizens...rarely go after other members of society.

Many mistook my stance on the issues in Ferguson.  Everyone wanted to focus on whether or not the police shooting was legit or not.  I never did.  Not enough information was available AND we were immediately hit with propaganda from both sides (to include the Police Chief withholding information & releasing selective info that supported his side).

WHAT DID alarm me was the military tactics/militarization of police that we saw when County Police showed up to assist in crowd control.

What should alarm Police Officials AND US citizens is that the distance between law enforcement and the people they're working for is greater than ever.

I seriously wonder if the war on Police has begun.

Russians coming home in body bags from Ukraine.

Thanks for the link Jason!

via Yahoo

Late last month Yelena Tumanova was handed the body of her son in a coffin at her home in Russia's Western Volga region. Anton Tumanov was 20 and a soldier serving in the Russian army in the North Caucasus region of Chechnya.
The documents Yelena Tumanova was given with the body raised more questions than they answered - questions about how her son died and about the Russian government’s denials that its troops are in Ukraine. The records do not show Anton Tumanov’s place of death, said human rights activists who spoke to his mother after she got in touch with them.
"Medical documents said there were shrapnel wounds, that is he died from a loss of blood, but how it happened and where were not indicated,” said Sergei Krivenko, who heads a commission on military affairs on Russia’s presidential human rights council.
Yelena Tumanova could not be reached for comment and Reuters was unable to review the documents. But more than 10 soldiers in her dead son’s unit told Krivenko and Ella Polyakova, another member of the presidential human rights council, that Anton Tumanov died in an Aug. 13 battle near the Ukrainian town of Snizhnye. The battle, the soldiers said, killed more than 100 Russian soldiers serving in the 18th motorized rifle brigade of military unit 27777, which is based outside the Chechen capital of Grozny..

I just don't know.

We have entered a world of shadows and greys.

Up is down, down is up and we're being subjected to intensive information warfare from both sides.  American Mercenary wrote a great primer on propaganda ops and I recommend you read it.  We're being bombed on all sides and all open source information on conflicts is suspect.  I think the source of the information tells more than the information itself.

ISIS murders a Brit Aid Worker.

via CNN

British aid worker David Haines appears to have been executed by ISIS militants, according to a video posted Saturday to a website associated with the group, making him the third Western captive to be killed by the Islamist extremist group in recent weeks.
The ISIS video post showing Haines' apparent beheading called his execution "a message to the allies of America."
It is produced very similarly to the videos that showed the executions of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, the last of which included Haines and the threat that he'd be killed next.
The new video pictures a masked ISIS militant placing his hand on another captive, whom he identified as Alan Henning, a British citizen.

Wow.

I wonder if all these Westerners that are falling into the hands of ISIS are part of the Global Citizen movement.

I mean seriously.  How STUPID do you have to be to travel to a war zone as a civilian?  Why wouldn't your common sense kick and say "this is a really bad idea"?  Why would you put yourself in that kind of jeopardy?

But a bigger question is why would a country go to war...engage in a long slog...because its citizens were stupid enough to travel to dangerous lands to either "help" or "report" on events?  Its lunacy.  An individual has a responsibility to look after their own safety, if they ignore that, then why should the state step in?

Russia's Armata Main Battle Tank to be displayed.

photo via Immortal Today.com

via ITAR-TASS

BAKU, September 12. /ITAR-TASS/. A family of new combat vehicles based on the universal platform Armata will be displayed at a Victory Parade in 2015, Oleg Siyenko, General Director of the Uralvagonzavod (UVZ) research and production corporation, told ITAR-TASS in an exclusive interview at the ADEX-2014 international exhibition of armaments.
"All works are proceeding according to schedule. A whole family of armored vehicles based on the Armata platform will be displayed in a Victory Parade next year," Siyenko said.

Interesting.

I thought this thing was pure vapor ware.  I'll be keeping an eye on this.  Hopefully someone that reads this blog will be able to get some pics of the thing so we can get a look at its armor, layout, weapons fit etc... 

The Fuji Firepower Exercise 2014 2nd Section **Definitely worth the watch!**

Watching this video convinces me of one thing.

The CNO is right in his estimation that hovering off shore at over 100 miles is no longer a protection against even moderately equipped forces.

We're going to have to fight to the beach and then to the objective.  Maneuver warfare is not going to be enough to avoid enemy fires.  We're going to have to take out Command & Control, launchers and finally suppress enemy infantry.

This Japanese firepower video demonstrates that when it comes to amphibious assault we're back to the future.

SIDENOTE:  Did you catch the blurb starting at the 12:10 mark in the video?  Japanese observation helicopters are now being equipped with 4 air-to-air missiles.  The Marine Corps should make note.  We might be missing a huge development.  While the USMC has dabbled in helicopter anti-air with the AH-1W/Z, it appears that others are dedicating platforms specifically for that mission.  I think that attention needs to be paid with exactly what the Russians are going to do with the KA-52 and the Chinese with the Z-10.

Fat Acceptance?

I'm still doing research into the intermittent fasting thing (found out something astonishing....if you fast for at least 18-24 hours, a man's HGH level increases almost 2000%) and I ran into something that has me scratching my head.

NOTE:  Follow this link to the study that shows that fasting increases HGH levels...this is stunning to me, it appears to this layman that our health/food industry has been lying its ass off.

Fat acceptance.  I never heard of it but it appears that its a cause that feminist groups have latched onto.  This is important because it points to the next battle for "women's rights" in the military.  Expect the weight tables to be soon eased to allow more women to serve.  Anyway check out the pics below and let me know what you think (a small sample size but it represents the thinking of these groups).

NATO: Russia still has 1,000 troops in Ukraine